A senior Singaporean minister has asked Indian Institute of Management (IIM) alumni to work closely with the government for pulling together people and ideas to make the country a better place to live.
The two-day conference, which was held on April 8 and 9, the third edition of Global IIMPACT 2016, showcased elaborate advances in technologies in a new element called ‘IIMaginarium’.
“We do hope that we will be able to harness the ideas and energy that you have...please do work in partnerships with our organisations and the government,” Singapore’s Senior Minister of State at the Ministries of Finance and Law, Indranee Rajah said.
Rajah, who toured the high-end technology exhibitions, noted the 1,800-strong IIM Alumni presence in Singapore, the largest outside India, and highlighted “their creative processes, the thoughts and the energy.”
Around 1,200 delegates, including personalities from India and entrepreneurs from around the world attended the conference here. It was streamed live to over 60,000 IIM Alumni located globally.
“You have been organising the IIMaginarium and have been pulling together people and ideas which will make the place we live in better,” Rajah said.
Former Singapore President SR Nathan, who is IIMPACT patron, acknowledged the bold attempt by the IIM Alumni in “Re-imagining the Future” at the conference.
“IIM Alumni (Singapore) form an important element of our economic fabric and need to play an active role as they prepare us to face the future, particularly on the economic front”, Nathan said.
IIMPact’s focus is therefore on re-imaging and re-inventing circles of life, work and social impact,” he added.
“Technology is changing lives dramatically all over the world. This is a bold attempt by IIM Alumni to bring immersive experience to the delegates through interesting and potentially disruptive ideas from promising start-ups and global companies,” Nathan said.
Rajah, who toured the high-end technology exhibitions, noted the 1,800-strong IIM Alumni presence in Singapore, the largest outside India, and highlighted “their creative processes, the thoughts and the energy.”
“Highlighting the growing India-Singapore diplomatic relationships, the coming advancements in technologies that would change the sphere of banking and financial markets, health care, roles of drones and robotics,” president of Pan IIM Alumni of Singapore (PIIMA) Sanjiv Aiyar said.